Facebook is experimenting with a new feature that makes creeping a lot easier

Creeping through your friends' Facebook profiles may become a lot
easier.

Facebook is testing a new feature that enables users to search
within individual profiles.

The new search function shows up as a separate search box in the
right-hand corner of their profile, allowing for you to search
their page for specific words or phrases.

For example, if you were to search the word "birthday," all of
the posts from your birthday would come up.

"We’re piloting a way to search for people’s posts from
within their Profiles. You can only search for posts that you can
already see on their Timelines," a Facebook spokesperson told
Tech Insider.

While this seems like a small change, it can actually be hugely
helpful. For example, say you see an interesting news article in
your Newsfeed posted by a close friend. But when you go to their
profile, it's no longer at the top of their feed. This will
enable you to search a keyword from that post on their profile so
that you can locate it again.

At least for now, though, the feature is only rolled out to some
users and is only in English on desktop.

This is nothing out of the usual for Facebook — the
company is notorious for testing new features on random
sample groups. It's actually built into how the company develops
and rolls out new features to its massive userbase.
"Every day, we run hundreds of tests on Facebook, most of which
are rolled out to a random sample of people to test their
impact,"
Facebook's Andrew "Boz" Bosworth wrote back in 2012.

Alexander Kaufman, a business editor at The Huffington Post, was
one of the first to report seeing the feature, according to
Mashable, who first wrote about the feature.
You can check out how to spot the new function in Kaufman's
screenshot below.